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...since I was 18 or 19. It's my main passion. I'd read a book by Ted Simon called Jupiter's Travels about his round-the-world trip in the 1970s, and I was so moved by his experience I set about organizing a trip with my friend Charley Boorman. We made a series called Long Way Round, one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life...
...Olympic team, he was allowed to compete in the event only after he agreed to pay his own way to Sweden. After shocking observers by running a 10.6 in a preliminary heat, Lippincott fizzled in the final, finishing third. Still, his mark stood until his compatriot, Charley Paddock, topped him by notching a 10.4 at a meet in California nine years later. The reigning Olympic champion, Paddock won attention as much for his prerace habits as for his speed; the colorful sprinter was renowned for quaffing a sherry mixed with raw egg before entering the blocks. (Read about Bolt...
Marlon Brando's in the back seat of a taxi with Rod Steiger. One man is a dockworker and former prize fighter, the other his older brother Charley. "Remember that night in the Garden?" Brando says. "You came down to my dressing room and you said, 'Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson.' You remember that? 'This ain't your night'! My night!? I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville...
During three decades as the head of financial-services consulting firm Greenwich Associates, Charley Ellis had a front-row view of Goldman Sachs' rise from also-ran to king of Wall Street. He then spent a decade working on a history of the firm, published last year as The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs. So what is Ellis' explanation for Goldman's spectacular rebound - it turned a $5.2 billion profit in the first half of the year - from the financial crisis...
...second, a late comeback Harvard was none too happy about, since Yale had placed fifth at Eastern Sprints.“[The Crimson] performed very well…fact is, they gave their best and it didn’t happen for them today,” lightweight coach Charley Butt said. “We knew that [Yale] was going to be a lot faster. For their standard they’ve been off this year, but to see them put it together was not a surprise.”“It?...